The Brooklyn Eagle: Green-Wood Cemetery Seeks To Bring Angel Back to Monument
June 4, 2009 ‘Angel of Music’ Is Gone From Composer’s Grave GREEN-WOOD — Brooklyn’s Historic Green-Wood Cemetery recently announced a new fundraising campaign to re-create “The Angel of Music” — a...
View ArticleNew York Times: Where the Bodies Aren’t Buried
July 19, 2009 By MICHAEL WILSON Kestutis Demereckas, a tall, broad son of Lithuania who favors classic white headstones over the shiny black ones, stood grinning over a coffin-size patch of grass in...
View ArticleThe Elkhart Truth: Local Sculptor a Finalist for Cemetery Piece
July 23, 2009 Local sculptor a finalist for cemetery piece She used to stand over the grave of legendary 19th-century American composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Directing an invisible...
View ArticleThe Times-Picayune: Brooklyn cemetery commissions new sculpture to honor New...
Tuesday July 28, 2009 By Chris Waddington, Contributing writer, The Times-Picayune One of New Orleans’ greatest musicians got a boost in New York this month, but he couldn’t join in the celebratory...
View ArticleBrooklyn Eagle: Unearthing the Past: Author Benjamin Feldman Finds...
Historian’s Second Book Documents Scandalous 1920s Real Estate Baron By Phoebe Neidl / July 29, 2009 BROOKLYN — Green-Wood Cemetery has proven to be fertile ground for author Benjamin Feldman. This...
View ArticleBradenton Herald: University Park sculptor invited to re-create statue
EAST MANATEE — a University Park sculptor could be in line to help correct a wrong in a famous Brooklyn cemetery. Myra Weisgold is one of five sculptors chosen to participate in a competition to...
View ArticleLA Times: Even a cemetery suffers in this economy
Historic grave sites are crumbling at New York’s Green-Wood Cemetery — the resting place of Leonard Bernstein, Louis Tiffany and others — and the money to save them is scarce. It’s tough being an...
View ArticleBrooklyn Daily Eagle: Pearsalls Honored at Green-Wood
The Green-Wood Historic Fund, at its second annual benefit this past Thursday [09/17/09], presented the DeWitt Clinton Award for Excellence to Nancy and Otis Pearsall for their lifelong dedication to...
View ArticleA Darwinian Cemetery-The Wall Street Journal
By SHELLY BANJO Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, the resting ground for such 19th-century titans as jeweler Charles Lewis Tiffany and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk, is running out of its main source...
View ArticleHonoring Our Civil War Veterans
Drummers William Wheeler The Brooklyn Daily Eagle has just published a very nice article by Phoebe Neidl on Green-Wood’s Civil War Project. Read it here. I am quoted in the article as identifying...
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